Film Screenings

Silent Tuesdays. Douglas Fairbanks is in top form in his follow-up to Robin Hood (1922).

Voyages and Discoveries | Member Movie. The basic story is simple enough: the captain of a whaling ship takes his grandson, Jed, on board to teach the youth about value in life—valor, courage, endurance—in other words, to help the young man grow up.

Voyages and Discoveries. “Treasure the experience; dreams fade when you wake up.” A dazzling body-swap romance filled with pathos, longing, and separation, this recent anime is visually stunning, at once very simple and extremely complex, with charming characterizations and beautiful imagery.

Labor Film Series. “The most humane film ever made about killing your boss” is how one reviewer describes this film.

Holidays | A Very Shane Black Christmas. Shane Black took the director’s seat for the first time in his own adaptation of the 1941 Mike Shayne mystery novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by Brett Halliday.

The Canon. Sweeping helicopter shots owe everything to this widescreen film as the Austrian countryside fills the screen and Julie Andrews’s voice fills our ears.

Silent Tuesdays. The portly young director of nine silent films—and only one other thriller among them—crafted Britain’s first all-talking feature, a tense tale of a young woman (Anny Ondra) whose guilty secret threatens her and her policeman boyfriend (John Longden).

Voyages and Discoveries. In an extraordinary, lyrical, gentle, and touching film about reassessing one’s own life, the protagonists, all recently deceased, arrive at a slightly crumbling institution, where they are each instructed to assess their lives and choose one important moment—a memory they can take with them forever.

Labor Film Series | Holidays. Included on many best film lists, this classic holiday movie—its story takes place over Christmas/New Year’s—features glorious performances by Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray and a sparkling script and vibrant direction by Billy Wilder.

Holidays | A Very Shane Black Christmas. Writer-director Shane Black travels back to the 1970s for his latest mismatched crime-solving partnership.

Holidays | The Canon. James Stewart and Donna Reed find their way through rough times in Bedford Falls (modeled on nearby Seneca Falls, New York) by way of a loving, dedicated relationship and a little heavenly intervention.

Voyages and Discoveries. Though this is Nicolas Roeg’s first directorial effort, it includes many trademarks that he would use later, including jump cuts and very clever juxtapositions of scenes and locations.

Once Upon a Time . . . at the Dryden. A group of outlaws capture a marshal who, they believe, holds the secret in their pursuit of hidden gold, protected by ancient Apache spirits.

Voyages and Discoveries. Kobayashi's anthology of four supernatural Japanese folk tales creates quiet unease through mood.

Holidays | The Canon. No holiday season would be complete without an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s yuletide classic, and this is one of the best (released in the United States simply as A Christmas Carol).

Holidays | The Canon. Crooner Bing Crosby stars as Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley, the easygoing priest who comes from East St. Louis to New York City to bring St. Dominic’s Church out of the dumps.

Holidays | The Canon. No holiday season would be complete without an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s yuletide classic, and this is one of the best (released in the United States simply as A Christmas Carol).

Holidays. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are star-crossed lovers who meet on an ocean voyage and pledge to reunite at the Empire State Building—until fate and near tragedy get in their way.