January 2, 2015 – February 1, 2015
3 Women
Directed by Robert Altman
Robert Altman made a long career out of films that challenged the idea that actions stemming from rampant consumerism or …
Altman
Directed by Ron Mann
Robert Altman (1925-2006) was, during his long filmmaking career, one of Hollywood’s mavericks—never concerned with popular tastes or prevailing trends. …
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Directed by Robert Hamer
“Murder, being a delicate matter, needs to be kept within the family. What surer cause for it is there than …
Mr. Turner
Directed by Mike Leigh
“Timothy Spall won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his magnificent performance as J.M.W. Turner in this gorgeously rendered …
Norte, The End of History
Directed by Lav Diaz
Known as “a Filipino freedom fighter that choses cinema as his weapon, a rebolusyonario that shoots film instead of people,” …
Paths of Glory
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick’s classic tale of corrupted leadership and the farce of legal proceedings during wartime (WWI) strikes resonance today through its …
School of Film Student Screening
Directed by Various
Everyone is invited to watch the many short films created by students in the classes of Fall Term 2014. Whether …
The King and the Mockingbird
Directed by Paul Grimault
Widely considered one of the best animated features of all time and a masterpiece of French animation, the Prix Louis …
The Ladykillers
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Mackendrick’s delightful black comedy finds Alec Guiness and his fumbling gang of crooks (Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, and Cecil Parker) …
The Lavender Hill Mob
Directed by Charles Crichton
With the aid of two bumbling sidekicks, timid bank clerk Henry Holland (Alec Guiness) nearly gets away with the heist …
The Long Goodbye
Directed by Robert Altman
As a tribute to, or perhaps in contempt of, the noir detective story, Altman subverts genre convention by re-imagining the …
The Man in the White Suit
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
In this light-hearted satire rich in comic twists, Alec Guiness plays a daffy inventor-chemist who concocts a miraculous fabric that …
The Sacrifice
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is generally considered to be the greatest director of post-war Soviet cinema and the last of the …
The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema
Directed by Ned Thanhouser
The Thanhouser Company was a trailblazing studio based in New Rochelle, New York, where from 1910 to 1917 it released …