Nitrate Picture Show Special Screening Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Morrison is proud to present the world premiere of the standalone film version of darker. Created in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, darker marks the ninth collaboration between Lang and Morrison across twenty-four years of working together.
The 2026 Nitrate Picture Show By the time she appeared in Why Change Your Wife?, Gloria Swanson was one of the biggest stars in the world, thanks largely to the three films she and director Cecil B. DeMille previously made together: Don’t Change Your Husband; For Better, For Worse; and the jaw-dropping Male and Female.
2026 Nitrate Picture Show Unter den Brücken..., a tale of two disenchanted coal-barge workers, who both fall in love with a young woman of “questionable virtue,” gracefully balances heavy naturalism and lyrical comedy. It was shot almost entirely on location on various rivers and canals in and around Berlin.
2026 Nitrate Picture Show John M. Stahl searched far and wide in the fall of 1938 for a new starring vehicle for Irene Dunne, whom he had directed twice before in Back Street (1932) and Magnificent Obsession (1936), before settling on James M. Cain’s unpublished manuscript A Modern Cinderella, about a union-organizing waitress who marries a millionaire industrialist with a manipulative mother.
2026 Nitrate Picture Show Though best known for epics such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean was equally skilled at directing films on a far more intimate scale.
2026 Nitrate Picture Show “And just imagine how my father would have loved your film,” reportedly reads a letter from the daughter of Alexandre Dumas fils to Greta Garbo after she watched Camille, an adaptation of Dumas’s novel The Lady of the Camelias (1848).
2026 Nitrate Picture Show José Leitão de Barros (1896–1967) was one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of Portuguese cinema. A film critic and a publisher, Barros was well acquainted with international film trends when he directed the short documentary Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores (1929) and the feature-length docudrama Maria do Mar (1930).
2026 Nitrate Picture Show In Hollywood Director, David Chierichetti’s 1973 biography of Mitchell Leisen, the author posits that the filmmaker and his filmography have been nearly forgotten. Leisen had once been quite successful: after a brief stint as an actor, he designed costumes and sets for Cecil B. DeMille before moving on to direct more than forty films of his own.
