January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017
A quick look at all of the films we’re screening on celluloid throughout 2017.
A New Leaf
Directed by Elaine May
May, as one half of the legendary comedy team Nichols and May, established herself as a comedic powerhouse on stage …
2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
The most legendary and widely discussed film of the 1960s, and Kubrick’s most famous work in a string of masterpieces, …
42nd Street
Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
During the early 1930s, Warner Bros. churned out a series of “backstage musicals” featuring complex choreography by the legendary Busby …
Almayer’s Folly
Directed by Chantal Akerman
With Almayer’s Folly, Akerman tackles the terrible legacy of the European colonial project in Southeast Asia head-on through an adaptation …
American Madness
Directed by Frank Capra
Producer Harry Cohn made Columbia Pictures one of the key studios of the early 1930s, perhaps the greatest purveyor of …
Angels of Sin
Directed by Robert Bresson
Bresson’s first feature hints at the themes for which his later films would become famous: isolation, suffering, martyrdom, and the …
Baby Face
Directed by Alfred E. Green
One of the most historically renowned pre-code films, Baby Face is the type of film Warner Bros. was so good …
Back Street
Directed by John M. Stahl
Under Carl Laemmle Jr.’s steady leadership, Universal in the 1930s produced a slew of social-issue dramas that were pitched slightly …
Bamboozled
Directed by Spike Lee
Routinely overshadowed by Lee’s better-known films (Do the Right Thing, She’s Gotta Have It, Malcolm X, et al.), Bamboozled is …
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by Benh Zeitlin
A deeply felt exploration of race and class in post-Katrina America filtered through the soaring fantasies and downcast reality of …
Bicycle Thieves
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
De Sica’s social drama, along with Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, is the most emotionally engaging film of the Italian …
Bombshell
Directed by Victor Fleming
Under the leadership of the tragic figure Irving Thalberg, by 1933 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the house of Hollywood glamour, producing sophisticated, …
Casque d’or
Directed by Jacques Becker
In this tragic adult fairytale, set in the criminal underworld of Belle Époque Paris, Georges (Serge Reggiani), a humble woodworker, …
Crooklyn
Directed by Spike Lee
Spike Lee’s sentimental remembrance of growing up in 1970s Brooklyn centers on a young girl named Troy (Zelda Harris) as …
Dead Man
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Few cinematic collaborations have been more perfectly cast than Dead Man, Jarmusch’s legendary, incendiary “psychedelic Western.” The film follows William …
Dune
Directed by David Lynch
Famed producers Dino and Rafaella De Laurentiis took a chance on Lynch directing Dune, after the beloved novel by Frank …
Employees’ Entrance
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Warner Brothers during the late silent era and the 1930s was a true industrial machine, churning out product at a …
Eraserhead
Directed by David Lynch
Is the twisted child of Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) a metaphor for the paternal anxiety this new father is experiencing? …
Fanny and Alexander
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
With his most pronounced cinematic meditation on childhood and memory, Ingmar Bergman abandons the expressionistic and existentially obsessive tendencies that …
Fish Tank
Directed by Andrea Arnold
With the arrival of her 2009 sophomore film, Academy Award-winning director Andrea Arnold (Red Road, American Honey) cemented herself as …
Footlight Parade
Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley’s last of three “backstage musicals” made at Warner Bros. in 1933 is the delightful, somewhat overshadowed Footlight Parade, …
Gabriel Over the White House
Directed by Gregory La Cava
During the depths of the depression, President Judson Hammond (Walter Huston) sides against workers and offers up uninspired political doctrine …
George Washington
Directed by David Gordon Green
Green’s debut feature masterfully captures the essence of childhood summers spent with kids your own age, free from parental supervision, …
Gold Diggers of 1933
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley’s second of three “backstage musicals” for Warner Bros. in 1933 was the fabled Gold Diggers of 1933, which …
Heroes for Sale
Directed by William A. Wellman
Wellman's pessimistic 1933 film presents the story of Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess), a soldier whose heroism on the battlefield is …
Ikiru
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), a lowly, stuck, middle-aged bureaucrat, falls ill with cancer and has less than a year to …
Inland Empire
Directed by David Lynch
“A woman in trouble,” says Inland Empire’s poster tagline. Lynch took several years, following the success of Mulholland Drive, to …
Irma Vep
Directed by Olivier Assayas
A twin portrait of both the acclaimed Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung as well as the French film industry as …
It’s a Gift
Directed by Norman McLeod
By 1934, W.C. Fields was at the top of his game, enormously popular in the US after a long string …
Ivan’s Childhood
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
During World War II, young Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev) scurries across Soviet and German lines, having been recruited as a spy …
James and the Giant Peach
Directed by Henry Selick
Based on Roald Dahl's delightfully dark children's story, Selick’s (Coraline) imaginative film tells the tale of an unhappy orphaned boy …
La Strada
Directed by Federico Fellini
Perhaps Fellini’s greatest film, La Strada straddles his early neorealist period and his later magical and fantastical work, combining elements …
La Vie de Jesus (The Life of Jesus)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Since his 1997 debut with The Life of Jesus, Bruno Dumont has become one of European cinema’s most unsettling and provocative auteurs, …
Le samouraï
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
For many Jean-Pierre Melville’s best film if not masterpiece, Hong Kong action film legend John Woo once called Le Samouraï …
Lolita
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Lolita began the string of masterpieces that form the second half of Kubrick’s career, through which he became one of …
Lost Highway
Directed by David Lynch
While many of Lynch’s films work with the tropes and atmospheres of film noir, few are so directly in the …
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Directed by Jacques Tati
Tati’s second feature introduces the beloved character Monsieur Hulot, the bumbling, charming, near-silent uncle figure at the heart of his …
Man’s Castle
Directed by Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage developed a successful career as a silent film director at 20th Century Fox with such films as Seventh …
Mulholland Drive
Directed by David Lynch
Mulholland Drive, conceived as a television series in the Twin Peaks lineage and shot as a feature-length pilot episode, was …
Psycho
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
“Phoenix, $40,000, car lot, traffic cop, Bates Motel, taxidermy, keyhole, shower, knife: every cinephile has committed these details to memory, …
Ratcatcher
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Taking place during a 1970s garbage strike in Glasgow, Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher follows young James (William Eadie) who lives in …
Rear Window
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
One of the most famous procedural thrillers in film history and routinely voted amongst the greatest films ever produced, Rear …
Rules of the Game
Directed by Jean Renoir
Although it was met with diverse responses when it was released, few films have earned such universal critical acclaim as …
Seed
Directed by John M. Stahl
Stahl, a master of the melodrama often situated as the proto-Douglas Sirk, made his second picture of 1931 with the …
Show Me Love
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Elin (Alexandra Dahlstrom) lives in the unremarkable small town Åmål, a fact over which she despairs to anyone who will …
Sullivan’s Travels
Directed by Preston Sturges
Sturges made a career on exquisitely rendered comedies with a strongly humanistic drive—and perhaps nowhere does this alchemical mixture come …
Sunset Boulevard
Directed by Billy Wilder
Down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) seeks refuge at the home of former silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson, …
Suspiria
Directed by Dario Argento
Suzy, a young dancer, arrives at a remote ballet academy and discovers that one of the students has been brutally …
Swimming To Cambodia
Directed by Jonathan Demme
“It would be wrong to think of Swimming to Cambodia as a one-man show, even though it captures the performance …
The Agronomist
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme’s career as a feature filmmaker was paralleled by personal documentaries focusing on music and human rights, with a …
The Decameron
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The first of three “tales of life"—to be followed by his adaptations of The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights—Pasolini’s take …
The Elephant Man
Directed by David Lynch
Surreptitiously produced by none other than Mel Brooks, Lynch’s haunting, macabre, and beautiful vision of Victorian London was—following the cult …
The Goonies
Directed by Richard Donner
A band of pre-teen friends who live in the “Goon Docks” neighborhood in Astoria attempt to save their homes from …
The Learning Tree
Directed by Gordon Parks
Based on his own autobiographical novel, The Learning Tree was, according to Roger Ebert, the first non-exploitation feature film made …
The Night of the Hunter
Directed by Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton, who made his name as a wide-ranging character actor in Hollywood (famed for his roles in such films at …
The Reflecting Skin
Directed by Philip Ridley
Someone has been abducting and murdering children in a rural 1950s American town. Seth (Jeremy Cooper) and the other boys …
The Spirit of the Beehive
Directed by Victor Erice
A traveling roadshow of the film Frankenstein comes to the small, Franco-era village where eight-year-old Ana (Ana Torrent), her sister …
The Story of Temple Drake
Directed by Stephen Roberts
Produced at Paramount at a time when the studio was floundering under financial hardship, The Story of Temple Drake is …
The Straight Story
Directed by David Lynch
“Walt Disney presents...a film by David Lynch.” Stranger words have perhaps never opened an American film, but the belief in …
The Tree of Life
Directed by Terrence Malick
In what was only his fifth feature in almost 40 years, the reclusive director Terrence Malick sets the lives of …
The White Balloon
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Winner of the Camera D’Or and International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Panahi’s first foray into narrative filmmaking, …
The White Ribbon
Directed by Michael Haneke
Something dire is transpiring just below the surface of a charming, pre-World War I German village. A horse and rider …
The Wizard of Oz
Directed by Victor Fleming
In 1939, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was at the height of its powers as a studio producing the most lavish films in Hollywood. …
Vertigo
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Topping Sight & Sound’s most recent critics’ poll of the 50 greatest films of all time, this 1958 psychological thriller …
Walkabout
Directed by Nicholas Roeg
Abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, a teenaged girl (Jenny Agutter) and her young brother (Luc Roeg) wander …
Wild at Heart
Directed by David Lynch
The promise of love in a violent world ripples under the surface of the unhinged Wild at Heart, in which …
Working Girls
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Arzner was the only female—let alone out lesbian—filmmaker working at a major Hollywood studio in the 1920s and ’30s, …
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
A tragic figure in the history of psychiatry, Wilhelm Reich is often credited with sparking the fire of the sexual …