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Wednesday August 5, 2026
Starts: 7:30pm
Ends (approx): 9:30pm
What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. It was intended to pay homage to comedy films of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, especially Bringing Up Baby and Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Dr. Howard Bannister, a musicologist from the Iowa Conservatory of Music in Ames, Iowa, has travelled to San Francisco to compete for a research grant offered by Frederick Larrabee. Howard is accompanied by his tightly wound, overbearing fiancée Eunice Burns. As the two check into the Hotel Bristol, Howard runs into the charming trouble-magnet Judy Maxwell in the hotel's drugstore. She never finished college, but nevertheless has amassed a considerable amount of knowledge from all of the academic institutions from which she was expelled. She begins to pursue Howard and lodges herself in the hotel without paying.
As a special bonus for this screening, we're going back to how movies used to be shown. Cartoon shorts shown before movies were a staple of the "Golden Age" of American animation (roughly 1930s–1960s), serving as crucial entertainment alongside newsreels and previews. Pioneered by studios like Disney and Warner Bros., these 5–10 minute "shorts" showcased iconic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, and Tom & Jerry. Their decline began in the late 1960s as television expanded and cartoons moved to the small screen. Considered to be one of the best of these cartoon shorts, we bring you The Rabbit of Seville. This Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on December 16, 1950. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. The nonstop slapstick humor in the short is paced musically around the overture to Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's 1816 "opera buffa" (comic opera) The Barber of Seville.