Calendar of Events
Events for all
Trouble in Paradise
Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October.
The Merry Widow
"It is a good show in the excellent Lubitsch manner, heady as the foam on champagne, fragile as mist and as delicately gay as a good-natured censor will permit . . ."
Shorts Made for the Theaters
Short films like those in this program—meant to be shown in a theater to a large audience—are relatively unknown to younger audiences today . . .
The Life of Jesus
At the time of its release, Bruno Dumont’s debut feature arrived as something of a paradox. On the one hand, the film delved into unexplored territory . . .
Hard to Be a God
When legendary Russian auteur Aleksej German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky brothers . . .
The Merry Widow
Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October.
Bringing Up Baby
In the mother of all screwball comedies, Cary Grant stars as a stuffy paleontologist who knows more about dinosaurs than he does about the modern woman . . .
Gimme Shelter
The landmark documentary about the ill-fated Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969 . . .
Twentynine Palms
The world according to Bruno Dumont has no shortage of horror. But it wasn’t until Twentynine Palms that the French provocateur would craft what could essentially be labeled a horror film . . .
Coast of Death
Those who regard cinema as a pleasure for the eyes will be richly rewarded by this pictorially stunning portrait of what the ancient Romans called "the end of the world" . . .
The Wicker Man--Final Cut
After receiving an anonymous letter about a missing 12-year-old girl, a devout Christian cop travels by seaplane to a remote Scottish island to investigate . . .
The Bridges of Madison County
A suppressed Iowa housewife Francesca (Meryl Streep) sends her farming husband and two children away to the Illinois State Fair, only to start a four-day passionate affair with a freewheeling photographer Robert (Clint Eastwood) . . .
Bringing Up Baby
Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October.
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Boris Karloff, fresh from Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Old Dark House, stars as the diabolical Chinese megalomaniac Dr. Fu Manchu, who tries to take over the world via archeology and torture . . .
Grey Gardens
In a filthy, rotting East Hampton mansion overrun with cats and raccoons, Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie (cousins to Jacqueline Onassis) lead a reclusive and eccentric lifestyle—to put it mildly . . .
I’m Going Home
"With I'm Going Home, the legendary Manoel de Oliveira, at the age of 93, created his masterpiece. The critics have already acclaimed it as one of the finest films of the decade . . . "
Li’l Quinquin
Dumont deftly executes a stunning left-field turn into darkly hilarious comedy with his made-for-TV epic—a surprise ratings hit in its native land . . .
His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday is a gender-bending version of Hecht and MacArthur's comedy The Front Page.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
An unorthodox mix of coffins, comedy, and makeup that may just be the last word in gruesomeness, this gorgeous early two-strip Technicolor treatise in hyper-weirdness concerns an insane wax modeler bent on murder and mayhem . . .
Christo’s Valley Curtain and Running Fence
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary—Short Subject, Valley Curtain celebrates Christo’s dramatic hanging of a huge orange curtain between two Colorado mountains . . .