In conjunction with the Boone County Library's celebration of astronomy and its explorations with the traveling exhibit "Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery", the Ozark Arts Council presents 'far-out space flix' at the Lyric Theater.
Tickets are $2 per person, or a combo pass for all three movies is $5. Tickets are available at the Box Office one hour prior to showtime, or in advance by calling 870.391.3504 or visiting the OAC office next to the Lyric.
Contact (1997)
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 at 7pm
Starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey; adapted from the Carl Sagan novel; directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway is a scientist who has spent her life looking for extraterrestrials. When she discovers a stunning message from an extraterrestrial intelligence, she is chosen to make first contact, and everyone on Earth will be forced to challenge their own assumptions.
2010, The Year We Made Contact (1984)
Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 at 7pm
Starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, and Helen Mirren; directed by Peter Hyams; based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two, a literary sequel to the film 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey
Nine years after the mysterious failure of the exploration spacecraft USSC Discovery, a joint American-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7pm
starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, and Teri Garr; directed and written by Steven Spielberg
In this Oscar-winning film, government agents around the world are mystified by an increase in UFO activity. Ordinary people and the agents follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind - alien contact.
