The Odd Fellows Classic Film Festival

Updated: April 5, 2026

Classic Hollywood cinema returns to the Davis Odd Fellows Hall for a three-week run starting Sunday, April 12th. The genre for this series of films is the movies of the late Academy Award winner Robert Redford. Everyone is welcome to enjoy these films.

The Davis Odd Fellows Hall is located at 415 2nd St. in downtown Davis. Doors open at 6:29 p.m. and the films start at 7:01 p.m. It's free of charge (although donations are always welcome to support classic films). Popcorn is provided free of charge. The bar will be open to purchase beer, wine, or soft drinks.

Davis Enterprise Film Critic/Reviewer Derrick Bang will give a short talk before each movie about interesting details on the plot, director, actors, and fun things to look for while watching. He’ll do a quick Q&A afterwards.

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April 12th we will show Barefoot in the Park a 1967 American romantic comedy film directed by Gene Saks from a screenplay by Neil Simon, adapted from his 1963 play of the same name, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda as a young newlywed couple. The supporting cast features Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herbert Edelman, and Mabel Albertson.

April 19th we return with The Sting a 1973 American caper film. Set in 1936, it involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Redford was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this film.

April 26th we end our series with Three Days of the Condor a 1975 American spy thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Set mainly in New York City and Washington, D.C., the film is about a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover his co-workers murdered, then subsequently tries to avoid his own murder and outwit those responsible and understand their motives.