The Princeton Garden Theatre has announced the 2025 lineup of the annual Hollywood Summer Nights program. Featuring 34 films that showcase over 75 years of cinematic history, the season will include classic literary adaptations, political satires, sci-fi and fantasy spectacles, and much more. Each film will be exhibited as originally intended: on the big screen.

Opening the series on May 28 is Planet of the Apes, followed by The Maltese Falcon on May 29. The season will close on September 10 with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and Christopher Nolan’s Memento on September 11. Each film will begin at 7 p.m. with select titles receiving encore screenings on Sunday afternoons.

Sprinkled throughout Hollywood Summer Nights are titles for the Garden’s year-long series on film music – Keeping the Score. Entries include the opening night movie, Planet of the Apes, as well as Wuthering Heights (1939), Return of the Jedi, Rocky, and The Graduate. As a special treat, there will be a presentation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, first in its theatrical version on June 26 and its extended cut on June 29.

The Garden’s ongoing collaboration with Turner Classic Movies’ writer Hannah Jack for the Deep Focus Online Seminar series will continue with pictures personally curated by Jack: Rebecca on June 4, The Manchurian Candidate on July 3, Bad Day at Black Rock on July 31, and a Sunday matinee showing of Oklahoma! on August 24. Deep Focus is supported by a grant from the Vesta Fund.

Joining the Garden’s audience on June 17 for a screening of Sunset Boulevard will be Michael Schulman, author of Oscar Wars, a history of the Academy Awards. Schulman will engage in a discussion following the film.

The Garden will be paying tribute to the late Gene Hackman by screening a new restoration of The Conversation on August 20, followed by The Royal Tenenbaums on August 21.

The complete schedule, which includes favorites like Casablanca, North by Northwest, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, can be found at princetongardentheatre.org/hsn.

Tickets can be purchased online or at the box office.