Directed by Orson Welles • 1958 • United States
Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Orson Welles’s sublimely sordid noir masterpiece opens with the most explosive tracking shot in all of cinema and ends with one of the medium’s most immortal lines (delivered, unforgettably, by Ma...
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick • 1957 • United States
Starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
In the swift, cynical SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney ...
Directed by Martha Coolidge • 1983 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily
Before there was CLUELESS, there was VALLEY GIRL. Conceived as a teen exploitation cheapie meant to capitalize on the success of the single by Frank and Moon Unit Zappa that ignited a natio...
Directed by Marguerite Duras • 1977 • France
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Noëlle Châtelet, Claudine Gabay
“Baxter, Vera Baxter.” When she hears the name called out in a bar, a mysterious woman (Delphine Seyrig) finds herself drawn to its owner. During a visit to her sprawling villa, the stranger li...
Directed by Martin Brest • 1988 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto
When bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert DeNiro) is charged with tracking down bail jumper Jon Mardukas (Charles Grodin), he has no idea that both the mob and the FBI have the same plan. Propelled ...
Directed by Arthur Hiller • 1976 • United States
Starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor
In this wild (and wildly popular) buddy-comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the midd...
Directed by Ralph Nelson • 1977 • United States
Starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Larry B. Scott
Based on the young-adult novel by Alice Childress, this heartfelt social-issue drama follows the journey of Benjie (Larry B. Scott), a troubled teen growing up in South Central Los Angeles. Traum...
Directed by Paul Schrader • 1978 • United States
Starring Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Paul Schrader’s hard-nosed directorial debut features searing performances by comic great Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto. Fed up with the indignities of factory work, three disgru...
Directed by H. C. Potter • 1948 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
The comic chemistry of Cary Grant and Myrna Loy propels this subtly sophisticated satire of postwar America’s search for a middle-class utopia. City-slicker advertising executive Jim Blandings (Grant) ...
Directed by J. Lee Thompson • 1973 • United States
Starring Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Austin Stoker
The fifth and final installment of the original blockbuster science-fiction series balances exciting action with thought-provoking social commentary. Roddy McDowall returns as Caesar, the si...
Directed by Iryna Tsilyk • 2020 • Ukraine, Lithuania
Starring Hanna Hladka, Stanislav Hladkyi, Anastasiia Trofymchuk
Krasnohorivka: a town on the front lines of the war-torn region of Eastern Ukraine. When poet and filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk first visits the Trofymchuk-Gladky family home, she is sur...
Directed by John Huston • 1950 • United States
Starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a c...
Directed by Jessica Bardsley • 2022 • United States
LIFE WITHOUT DREAMS is set in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness due to light pollution.
Directed by Sam Wood • 1934 • United States
Starring Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill
Based on the true story of Elsbeth Schragmüller (a.k.a. Fräulein Doktor), this crisp espionage thriller stars an exquisitely costumed Myrna Loy as a notorious, seductive, Mata Hari–esque enemy spy named A...
Directed by Stanley Donen • 1966 • United States
Starring Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
Following the runaway success of CHARADE, director Stanley Donen brought together another pair of megastars for a similarly swanky, Hitchcockian blend of romance, comedy, and international intrigue. ...
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke • 1934 • United States
Starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
Nick and Nora Charles cordially invite you to bring your own alibi to this jaunty, dry-witted whodunit, which made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing. Bantering in ...
Directed by Robert Wise • 1966 • United States
Starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
Introduction: This film has been programmed as part of the series Hollywood Chinese, a survey on the history of Chinese representation in American cinema, curated by filmmaker Arthur Dong....
Directed by Rolf de Heer • 2013 • Australia
Starring David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford
Living in a remote Aboriginal community in the northern part of Australia, Charlie (David Gulpilil, who also cowrote the screenplay) is a warrior past his prime. As the government increases its strangle...
Directed by Lewis Milestone • 1949 • United States
Starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern
John Steinbeck adapted his own classic novella for this sensitive tale of a young boy (Peter Miles) growing up in California’s Salinas Valley who, under the guidance of a venerable ranch hand (Ro...
Directed by Joan Chen • 1998 • Hong Kong
Starring Li Xiaolu, Lopsang, Zheng Qian
Introduction: This film has been programmed as part of the series Hollywood Chinese, a survey on the history of Chinese representation in American cinema, curated by filmmaker Arthur Dong. He notes: “After her break...
Directed by Lukas Moodysson • 2013 • Sweden, Denmark
Starring Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne
Punk is alive and well in this exuberant ode to nonconformity from Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson. Pixieish, mohawk-sporting Klara (Mira Grosin) and her best friend Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) are ...
Directed by Stanley Kwan • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Alex Man Chi-leung
Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering...
Directed by Stan Lathan • 1982 • United States
Starring Yaphet Kotto, Ned Beatty, Antonio Fargas
Yaphet Kotto stars in this dramatic account of the heroic true story of Denmark Vesey, who was born into slavery but bought his freedom, became a carpenter and pastor, and in 1822 planned a daring re...
Directed by Glenda Hambly • 1985 • Australia
Starring Noni Hazlehurst, Annie Byron, Alan Fletcher
Built around a dynamic, sympathetic performance from Noni Hazlehurst, this candid, funny, unflinching portrait of the challenges of single parenthood follows Fran, a fiercely loving but troubled mot...
