Dryden Theatre
Film Screenings
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
ImageOut of the Archive Outrageous costumes, gorgeous locations, and a stellar retro soundtrack are the backdrop for this bitingly humorous tale of two drag queens and a transsexual's road trip across the Australian outback in a school bus named Priscilla.
Tin Pan Alley on 16mm
Make Mine Musicals Twentieth Century-Fox mainstays Betty Grable and Alice Faye star in this film as performing sisters caught up with a pair of songwriters in the first decades of the century.
Lotna on 35mm
Post-Stalinist Poland | Polish Film Festival Director Andrzej Wajda returns to the theater of World War II for this story of Poland’s struggle against the increasingly insurmountable German army.
The Man Who Knew Too Much on 35mm
Hitchcock 125 Hitchcock's only remake is a taut, glossy, suspense classic with standout performances by Hitchcock veteran James Stewart and a plucky Doris Day.
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
Labor Film Series 2024 Lloyd Bridges stars as Brad Adams, union president of Doubleday Plastics, who is told by the owner that half of the workforce must be replaced by machines or the factory closes.
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Wake Up!: The Cinema of Spike Lee | Halloween Spike Lee turned to his own fans on Kickstarter to finance this remake of Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess (1973).
The Student of Prague on 16mm
Silent Tuesdays | Halloween Unforgettable Weimar actors Conrad Veidt and Werner Krauss team up in Henrik Galeen’s version of The Student of Prague.
Knife in the Water on 35mm
Post-Stalinist Poland | Polish Film Festival Roman Polanski’s first (and for forty years, only) feature shot in his native Poland, Knife in the Water is a psycho-sexual thriller that broke taboos and shocked audiences.
Evil Dead II
Halloween Part remake, part sequel, this cult classic introduced "groovy" to the horror lexicon and firmly established Bruce Campbell as an underground star.