Schedule – Downtown in Traverse City, Michigan

Admission at the Saturday morning kids matinees and the Wednesday morning classic matinees is 25 cents – the same price the State (then called the Lyric Theater) charged when it opened in 1916.
Tuesday is free popcorn day! Patrons may get a free small popcorn when attending any regularly priced movie at the State on Tuesday.
Friday Night Flicks (cool and edgy films that roll between 10 and midnight on Friday) are just $3 or two admissions for $5!
The box office is open from one hour before the first show until approximately 9 pm daily.

	BEFORE MIDNIGHT Now PlayingRead Rogerebert.com’s Review View The Trailer 2013/USA/R/108 min Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Here’s what you need to know about this summer hit: 1. You don’t need to have seen the first two films in the trilogy (“Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset”) to love this film (although it’s even richer and more enjoyable if you have seen them). 2. Audiences are saying that it’s their favorite of the three films, with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy returning to their roles as lovers, now married and raising twin daughters. 3. It’s visually stunning, set during a vacation to Greece. And it’s about marriage, the chance that love can survive marriage, and the nature of long-term love. 4. The critics are raving about it — it’s 98 percent at Rotten Tomatoes and 96 percent at Metacritic. Here’s what they have to say: “‘Before Midnight’ is a wonderful paradox: a movie passionately committed to the ideal of imperfection that is itself very close to perfect.” -A.O. Scott, The New York Times “Whatever a modern love story is, ‘Before Midnight’ takes it to the next level. It’s damn near perfect.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone “‘Before Midnight’ confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways. It’s not just darker than the previous two films. It’s bigger, deeper, and more searching. It follows the characters through a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond them.” -Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly “Bittersweet, intelligently written, deftly acted and painfully honest.” -Claudia Puig, USA Today “If I were only allowed to see one movie this year, I’d want it to be ‘Before Midnight.’” -TIME Magazine “One of the great movie romances of the modern era achieves its richest and fullest expression.” -Variety “Lovely. Insightful. Sad. Funny.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune “Mines deep beneath the surface of human feeling. It will make you think - about love, about life.” -Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer “‘Before Midnight’ confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways, … a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond the characters.” -Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly “If the first two films belong with the greatest (if talkiest) movie romances of all time, the new film is richer, riskier, and more bleakly perceptive about what it takes for love to endure (or not) over the long haul.” -Ty Burr, Boston Globe “Bravely and with penetrating intelligence, ‘Before Midnight’ elevates the practical, a partnership: frayed by disappointment, worn by time, but for the very luckiest, durable for the long day’s journey into night.” -TIME Magazine “Making a movie this warm, funny, and rigorously truthful about lovers trying to remain partners is hard.” -New York Post “It’s a rare and powerful thing to confront something honest and real on the big screen. It stays with you in a way that nothing else can. ‘Before Midnight’ is fiction but it might as well be a documentary.” -James Berardinelli, ReelViews “The films have only gotten better by letting the relationship marinate. ‘Midnight’s’ more disgruntled edge reflects what creeps up on couples as years pass, regrets stack up, kids factor in, real life intervenes.” -Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times “More than any of the films in the trilogy, this one may be the most hopeful – and the most affecting.” -Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald “About the power of words, their ability to bridge gulfs of time and space, the thrill of ideas and opinions taking definitive shape.” -Jesse Cataldo, Slant Magazine Read Rogerebert.com’s Review View The Trailer Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	THE MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES Playing Wednesday, June 19 – 11:00 am – Wednesday Classics Series – Tickets Only 25 Cents!1964/USA/NR/91 min Director: Robert Stevenson Cast: Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk and Leon AmesIn this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong. The movie spawned the sequel “Monkey’s Uncle” two years later. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Playing Thursday, June 20 at 6:00 pm2012/Sweden, UK/PG-13/85 min Director: Malik Bendjelloul Cast: Rodriguez and Malik Bendjelloul“Searching for Sugar Man” is the true story of a singer-songwriter from Detroit who was once certain to become a superstar—only to end up out on the street before his career ever began, recording contract voided, never to be heard from again. Years later, in the 1970s, a bootleg of one of his albums wound up at a radio station in South Africa. There, it spread like wildfire among the anti-apartheid youth. And thus this man’s music, never having been really played in his own country (the USA), was suddenly, in South Africa, as famous as The Beatles! Be ready to be uplifted by this very Michigan story about a man long forgotten whose musical legacy will live on forever. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Playing Tuesday, June 18 at 10:00 am, Thursday June 20 at 10:00 am, and Saturday, June 22 at 10:00 am – 25 Cent Kids Matinee 2013/USA/PG/130 min Director: Sam Raimi Cast: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle WilliamsWhen Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great wizard but into a better man as well. Make sure you arrive early to the Saturday, June 22 screening because we will be giving away a FREE children’s bike to a lucky attendee, courtesy of Grand Traverse Pie Company and Einstein Cycles. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	THE ROOM Playing Friday, June 21 – Time to be determined – Friday Night Flicks – Tickets $3 or 2 for $52003/USA/R Director: Tommy Wiseau Cast: Tommy Wiseau, Juliette and Greg SesteroBilled as “’The Citizen Kane’ of Bad Movies” (and that description is right on the money) “The Room” centers on Johnny (writer/director Tommy Wiseau), a man who has it all; great friends, a good job, and a gorgeous fiancée named Lisa (Juliette Danielle). But Lisa’s innocent act masks the fact that she’s looking to bring Johnny down, and her manipulations are tearing Johnny apart. As Lisa informs her cancer-ridden mother, Claudette (Carolyn Minnott), that Johnny hit her (and he did not hit her, that is bull$&*t, he did not!), Johnny’s best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero), finds his resistance to Lisa’s seductive charms weakening. Meanwhile, local orphan Denny (Philip Haldiman) looks up to Johnny, and needs the older man’s help after the teen rips off a drug dealer. What kind of drugs? It doesn’t matter. Then guys play football in tuxedos, because you can play football anywhere. Upon release in Los Angeles, “The Room” began attracting a small crowd of devoted cult followers who hailed it as the next “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” talking back to the screen and acting out scenes as the soft-core, melodramatic train wreck of a film derails up on the big screen. In time, word of “The Room’s” hopelessly incompetent, unintentionally hilarious charms began to spread, and screenings started to crop up from coast to coast. This movie is seriously not to be missed. And don’t worry, we’ll provide the spoons. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	MEGAMIND Playing Tuesday, June 25 at 10:00 am, Thursday June 27 at 10:00 am, and Saturday, June 29 at 10:00 am – 25 Cent Kids Matinee2010/USA/PG/95 min Director: Tom McGrath , Cameron Hood Cast: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, David CrossMegamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known… and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt has been a colossal failure, thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world’s biggest “mind” actually be the one to save the day? Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	BEACH BLANKET BINGO Playing Wednesday, June 26 – 11:00 am – Wednesday Classics Series – Tickets Only 25 Cents!1965/USA/NR/98 min Director: William Asher Cast: Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon and Linda EvansFrankie (Frankie Avalon) briefly deserts Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) in favor of pop star Sugar Kane (Linda Evans). Also around and about is a mermaid, appropriately named Lorelei (Marta Kristen). Scurrilous cycle gang leader Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) finds time to sing a tune, while Paul Lynde sneers a lot, Don Rickles insults a lot, Buster Keaton mimes a lot, and columnist Earl Wilson lets everybody know who he is by exclaiming “That’s Earl, brother.” The whole cast rushes to the rescue when South Dakota Slim (Timothy Carey) binds the lovely Sugar Kane to a buzzsaw. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Playing Friday, June 28 – Time to be determined – Friday Night Flicks – Tickets $3 or 2 for $51990/USA/PG-13/105 min Director: Tim Burton Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne WiestIn Tim Burton’s suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment — a man/creation named Edward (Johnny Depp) — of a scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood’s old abandoned castle. The scientist died before replacing the shy man’s large shears with real hands. When Peg attempts to bring Edward into her suburban world, to live among her skeptical family (husband Alan Arkin and daughter Winona Ryder) and gossipy neighbors, his hands — dangerous yet capable of creating things of great beauty — make for some awkward, funny, and poignant situations: Edward as a topiary gardener, Edward as a cutting-edge hair stylist. In spite of his inherent ability to slay anyone he comes across, Edward is a gentle soul whose only wish is to be loved. His impromptu family has, at best, a limited understanding of Edward, but he finds himself drawn to Peg’s weary but sympathetic daughter, Kim (Winona Ryder), who is dating Jim (Anthony Michael Hall), the neighborhood bully. Meanwhile, Edward finds himself a local celebrity after the town realizes that his talents include creative hedge trimming and an unrivaled ability to cut hair. His so-called friends are proven fair-weather when Edward is accused of a crime. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	DESPICABLE ME Playing Tuesday, July 9 at 10:00 am, Thursday July 11 at 10:00 am, and Saturday, July 13 at 10:00 am – 25 Cent Kids Matinee2010/USA/PG/95 min Directors: Pierre Coffin , Chris Renaud Cast: Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Jason Segel, Kristen WiigIn a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar

	BEFORE MIDNIGHT Now PlayingRead Rogerebert.com’s Review View The Trailer 2013/USA/R/108 min Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Here’s what you need to know about this summer hit: 1. You don’t need to have seen the first two films in the trilogy (“Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset”) to love this film (although it’s even richer and more enjoyable if you have seen them). 2. Audiences are saying that it’s their favorite of the three films, with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy returning to their roles as lovers, now married and raising twin daughters. 3. It’s visually stunning, set during a vacation to Greece. And it’s about marriage, the chance that love can survive marriage, and the nature of long-term love. 4. The critics are raving about it — it’s 98 percent at Rotten Tomatoes and 96 percent at Metacritic. Here’s what they have to say: “‘Before Midnight’ is a wonderful paradox: a movie passionately committed to the ideal of imperfection that is itself very close to perfect.” -A.O. Scott, The New York Times “Whatever a modern love story is, ‘Before Midnight’ takes it to the next level. It’s damn near perfect.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone “‘Before Midnight’ confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways. It’s not just darker than the previous two films. It’s bigger, deeper, and more searching. It follows the characters through a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond them.” -Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly “Bittersweet, intelligently written, deftly acted and painfully honest.” -Claudia Puig, USA Today “If I were only allowed to see one movie this year, I’d want it to be ‘Before Midnight.’” -TIME Magazine “One of the great movie romances of the modern era achieves its richest and fullest expression.” -Variety “Lovely. Insightful. Sad. Funny.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune “Mines deep beneath the surface of human feeling. It will make you think - about love, about life.” -Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer “‘Before Midnight’ confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways, … a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond the characters.” -Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly “If the first two films belong with the greatest (if talkiest) movie romances of all time, the new film is richer, riskier, and more bleakly perceptive about what it takes for love to endure (or not) over the long haul.” -Ty Burr, Boston Globe “Bravely and with penetrating intelligence, ‘Before Midnight’ elevates the practical, a partnership: frayed by disappointment, worn by time, but for the very luckiest, durable for the long day’s journey into night.” -TIME Magazine “Making a movie this warm, funny, and rigorously truthful about lovers trying to remain partners is hard.” -New York Post “It’s a rare and powerful thing to confront something honest and real on the big screen. It stays with you in a way that nothing else can. ‘Before Midnight’ is fiction but it might as well be a documentary.” -James Berardinelli, ReelViews “The films have only gotten better by letting the relationship marinate. ‘Midnight’s’ more disgruntled edge reflects what creeps up on couples as years pass, regrets stack up, kids factor in, real life intervenes.” -Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times “More than any of the films in the trilogy, this one may be the most hopeful – and the most affecting.” -Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald “About the power of words, their ability to bridge gulfs of time and space, the thrill of ideas and opinions taking definitive shape.” -Jesse Cataldo, Slant Magazine Read Rogerebert.com’s Review View The Trailer Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	THE MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES Playing Wednesday, June 19 – 11:00 am – Wednesday Classics Series – Tickets Only 25 Cents!1964/USA/NR/91 min Director: Robert Stevenson Cast: Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk and Leon AmesIn this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong. The movie spawned the sequel “Monkey’s Uncle” two years later. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Playing Thursday, June 20 at 6:00 pm2012/Sweden, UK/PG-13/85 min Director: Malik Bendjelloul Cast: Rodriguez and Malik Bendjelloul“Searching for Sugar Man” is the true story of a singer-songwriter from Detroit who was once certain to become a superstar—only to end up out on the street before his career ever began, recording contract voided, never to be heard from again. Years later, in the 1970s, a bootleg of one of his albums wound up at a radio station in South Africa. There, it spread like wildfire among the anti-apartheid youth. And thus this man’s music, never having been really played in his own country (the USA), was suddenly, in South Africa, as famous as The Beatles! Be ready to be uplifted by this very Michigan story about a man long forgotten whose musical legacy will live on forever. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Playing Tuesday, June 18 at 10:00 am, Thursday June 20 at 10:00 am, and Saturday, June 22 at 10:00 am – 25 Cent Kids Matinee 2013/USA/PG/130 min Director: Sam Raimi Cast: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle WilliamsWhen Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great wizard but into a better man as well. Make sure you arrive early to the Saturday, June 22 screening because we will be giving away a FREE children’s bike to a lucky attendee, courtesy of Grand Traverse Pie Company and Einstein Cycles. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	THE ROOM Playing Friday, June 21 – Time to be determined – Friday Night Flicks – Tickets $3 or 2 for $52003/USA/R Director: Tommy Wiseau Cast: Tommy Wiseau, Juliette and Greg SesteroBilled as “’The Citizen Kane’ of Bad Movies” (and that description is right on the money) “The Room” centers on Johnny (writer/director Tommy Wiseau), a man who has it all; great friends, a good job, and a gorgeous fiancée named Lisa (Juliette Danielle). But Lisa’s innocent act masks the fact that she’s looking to bring Johnny down, and her manipulations are tearing Johnny apart. As Lisa informs her cancer-ridden mother, Claudette (Carolyn Minnott), that Johnny hit her (and he did not hit her, that is bull$&*t, he did not!), Johnny’s best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero), finds his resistance to Lisa’s seductive charms weakening. Meanwhile, local orphan Denny (Philip Haldiman) looks up to Johnny, and needs the older man’s help after the teen rips off a drug dealer. What kind of drugs? It doesn’t matter. Then guys play football in tuxedos, because you can play football anywhere. Upon release in Los Angeles, “The Room” began attracting a small crowd of devoted cult followers who hailed it as the next “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” talking back to the screen and acting out scenes as the soft-core, melodramatic train wreck of a film derails up on the big screen. In time, word of “The Room’s” hopelessly incompetent, unintentionally hilarious charms began to spread, and screenings started to crop up from coast to coast. This movie is seriously not to be missed. And don’t worry, we’ll provide the spoons. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	MEGAMIND Playing Tuesday, June 25 at 10:00 am, Thursday June 27 at 10:00 am, and Saturday, June 29 at 10:00 am – 25 Cent Kids Matinee2010/USA/PG/95 min Director: Tom McGrath , Cameron Hood Cast: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, David CrossMegamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known… and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt has been a colossal failure, thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world’s biggest “mind” actually be the one to save the day? Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	BEACH BLANKET BINGO Playing Wednesday, June 26 – 11:00 am – Wednesday Classics Series – Tickets Only 25 Cents!1965/USA/NR/98 min Director: William Asher Cast: Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon and Linda EvansFrankie (Frankie Avalon) briefly deserts Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) in favor of pop star Sugar Kane (Linda Evans). Also around and about is a mermaid, appropriately named Lorelei (Marta Kristen). Scurrilous cycle gang leader Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) finds time to sing a tune, while Paul Lynde sneers a lot, Don Rickles insults a lot, Buster Keaton mimes a lot, and columnist Earl Wilson lets everybody know who he is by exclaiming “That’s Earl, brother.” The whole cast rushes to the rescue when South Dakota Slim (Timothy Carey) binds the lovely Sugar Kane to a buzzsaw. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Playing Friday, June 28 – Time to be determined – Friday Night Flicks – Tickets $3 or 2 for $51990/USA/PG-13/105 min Director: Tim Burton Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne WiestIn Tim Burton’s suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment — a man/creation named Edward (Johnny Depp) — of a scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood’s old abandoned castle. The scientist died before replacing the shy man’s large shears with real hands. When Peg attempts to bring Edward into her suburban world, to live among her skeptical family (husband Alan Arkin and daughter Winona Ryder) and gossipy neighbors, his hands — dangerous yet capable of creating things of great beauty — make for some awkward, funny, and poignant situations: Edward as a topiary gardener, Edward as a cutting-edge hair stylist. In spite of his inherent ability to slay anyone he comes across, Edward is a gentle soul whose only wish is to be loved. His impromptu family has, at best, a limited understanding of Edward, but he finds himself drawn to Peg’s weary but sympathetic daughter, Kim (Winona Ryder), who is dating Jim (Anthony Michael Hall), the neighborhood bully. Meanwhile, Edward finds himself a local celebrity after the town realizes that his talents include creative hedge trimming and an unrivaled ability to cut hair. His so-called friends are proven fair-weather when Edward is accused of a crime. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar
	DESPICABLE ME Playing Tuesday, July 9 at 10:00 am, Thursday July 11 at 10:00 am, and Saturday, July 13 at 10:00 am – 25 Cent Kids Matinee2010/USA/PG/95 min Directors: Pierre Coffin , Chris Renaud Cast: Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Jason Segel, Kristen WiigIn a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. Buy Tickets \| Back to Calendar