Main Art Theatre is located at 118 N. Main Street in Royal Oak, MI, 48067
On the corner of Main Street and 11 Mile Road- Get Directions
3 Screens
Like the city of its location, the Main Art Theatre offers something for everyone. Located in the heart of downtown Royal Oak, we are surrounded by a number of galleries, restaurants and other one-of-a-kind businesses.
Operated by Landmark since 1997, the theatre was originally built in the early 1940s as a single-screen. Today, we feature the Detroit area's finest selection of independent film and foreign language cinema.
Each summer, we host a midnight series Midnight Madness, having offered new classics like The City of Lost Children as well as hometown favorites such as Evil Dead 2.
Want showtimes? Call 248.263.2111 or check landmarktheatres.com for showtimes and film descriptions!Now Showing
In Los Angeles circa 1915, a little immigrant girl (Catinca Untaru) is in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man (Lee Pace), who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into his tale. Shot on location in 18 countries around the world, The Fall is a moving, visually sumptuous fantasy of exotic bandits, evil tyrants, dream-like palaces and breathtaking landscapes. Directed and co-written by Tarsem (The Cell).
The English-language debut of acclaimed Indian director Santosh Sivan (Asoka, The Terrorist) is set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement. Rahul Bose stars as an idealistic young Indian man who finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss (Linus Roache) and a village woman (Nandita Das). Co-starring Jennifer Ehle and John Standing. Presented by Merchant Ivory, creators of A Room With a View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day.
In 1980s Britain, young Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden. When Will encounters his first movie, a pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood, his imagination is blown wide open. Now, Will sets out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical school bully (Will Poulter) to make their own action epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, not to mention equally elaborate schemes for creating a movie of total commitment and non-stop thrills while hiding out from The Brethren. Written and directed by Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), who captures the agony and the giddy ecstasy of a camcorder childhood with inventive humor, poignancy and a rousing dose of cinematic panache.
Fri & Sat Midnight Movies at the Main Art Theatre!
Quentin Tarrentino's Pulp Fiction . May 23 & 24
Turn it up to 11! This is Spinal Tap · May 30 & 31
Alicia Silverstone in Clueless · Jun 6 & 7
Ridley Scott's Director's Cut! Alien · Jun 13 & 14
Original version! Not on DVD! Grindhouse · Jun 20 & 21
Prince & Apollonia in Purple Rain · Jun 27 & 28
Bill Murray & Jason Schwartzmann in Rushmore · Jul 4 & 5
Grab your friends and sing along with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John! Grease Sing-Along · Jul 11 & 12
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Final Cut · Jul 18 & 19
Audrey Tautou is Amélie · Jul 25 & 26
Brad Pitt & Edward Norton in Fight Club · Aug 1 & 2
Don't feed them after midnight! Gremlins · Aug 8 & 9
Jeff Bridges in the sci-fi classic Tron · Aug 15 & 16
New 35mm print! Peter Jackson's Dead Alive · Aug 22 & 23
Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park · Aug 29 & 30
Coming Soon
6/06- Mister Lonely
Only Harmony Korine (writer of Kids, auteur of Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy) could weave Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, her daughter Shirley Temple and flying nuns into a hypnotically funny and truly poignant tale of the instability behind fanaticism and the redemption we can hope to find in one another. The film follows a lonely Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) who is invited by a beautiful Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) to a commune full of other impersonators—including the Queen of England, Madonna, Sammy Davis Jr. and James Dean—in the Scottish Highlands. In a parallel story line, the incomparable Werner Herzog plays a Latin American priest who learns his missionary of nuns can literally fly.
6/06- Standard Operating Procedure
Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America's image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains: Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behavior of a few "bad apples"? Director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) set out to examine the context of these photographs, talking directly to the soldiers who took them and who were in them. After two years of investigation, he amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs. The story of Abu Ghraib is still shrouded in moral ambiguity, but it is now clear what happened there.