From Rochester, With Love | Saturday Matinees! Labeled “box office poison” in 1938, primarily for being a non-conformist, Katharine Hepburn returned to the stage in a play written by Rochester-born Philip Barry to showcase the actress’s strengths: The Philadelphia Story. Before the production even opened on Broadway, Hepburn had purchased the film rights (with the help of her then-partner Howard Hughes) and shopped it around Hollywood.

The Complete Kubrick Half a century after its release, Kubrick’s most successful film at the box office is still his most controversial. Set in an ultra-violent future where the only thing more frightening than the roving youth gangs is the therapy used to “cure” them, this startling adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel has lost none of its power to outrage and disturb.