What we do

Take-Up is dedicated to the public screening of classic cinema.

We produce the
Sound Unseen Film Festival and the Minneapolis
Bicycle Film Festival.

We assist in several outdoor film programs, like Music and Movies in District del Sol and the Summer Sci-Fi series at the Bell Museum.

We offer regular film screenings at The Trylon (our south Minneapolis microcinema) as well as neighborhood theaters like The Heights, The Riverview and The Parkway.

We'd like to thank the following for their support.

Upcoming programs

The Great Stone Face:
Six From Buster Keaton

Accompanied by the music of Dreamland Faces

Starting July 17th
The Trylon microcinema
3258 Minnehaha Ave S
Tickets: $8
Suggested donation for live music: $2

The all-volunteer staff of Take-Up Productions has worked for three years to put together the money for our own theater. On July 17th, we're opening The Trylon in south Minneapolis, a few blocks from the Lake Street LRT station. We've decided to open our microcinema with a film series starring Buster Keaton, featuring the accompaniment of Dreamland Faces on accordion and singing saw.

Sherlock Jr (1924)
July 17 and 18 at 7pm and 9pm
Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo is a delight, but Buster Keaton did it first. Projectionist Buster — dreaming he’s an ace detective — jumps right on to the movie screen, finding himself furiously edited from garden bench to city street to cliff — but finally becoming the ace detective of his wildest cinema fantasies.

Preceded by the short: The Electric House (1922) Buster designs a house with all the latest gadgets for a real estate tycoon who will buy thousands if the model home impresses him. But during the demonstration, everything that can go wrong, does - hilariously!

The Navigator (1924)
July 24 and 25 at 7pm and 9pm
Keaton’s top money-maker began with the biggest prop of his career: an ocean liner. Pampered playboy Buster is stranded on same with equally helpless airhead Kathryn McGuire. The ship finally runs aground on a desert island where the two unfortunates are chased by cannibals. One of Keaton's most revered films.

Preceded by the short film: The Ballonatic (1923) Buster rises to new heights as he sails heavenward in a balloon. He bumps into clouds, and in trying to bring down a duck, punctures the gas bag and crashes in the woods where he saves Phyllis Haver from a bear and falls in love. His courtship and the 'balloonatic' events that follow are hilarious!

Seven Chances (1925)
July 31 and August 1 at 7pm and 9pm
Buster gets word that if he can be married by 7 o'clock that evening, he will inherit $7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman! Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish!

Preceded by the short film: The Goat (1921) A mistaken-identity crisis precipitates an almost continuous - and continuously brilliant - chase through two adjoining towns where Buster is taken for 'Deadeye Dan, Public Enemy'."

Advance tickets are now on sale at Take-Up's brownpapertickets.com page.

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Monday August 17th 7:30
The Heights Theatre
3951 Central Ave NE
Tickets: $8 - Take-Up discount tickets: 5/$25

A robot and a man . . . hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet!

An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learning something about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach.