Teresa Wright The quintessential “coming home” film and winner of seven Academy Awards, The Best Years of Our Lives features cinematographer Gregg Toland’s amazing deep focus photography.

Stanley Kubrick The most wanted (and controversial) "lost" film of our time was made by director Stanley Kubrick when he was only 23, with Paul Mazursky in a startling screen début.

Silent Tuesdays | A Touch of Lubitsch These two early films both star Ernst Lubitsch, who started out as a comic actor in Germany. 

The Centennial Club This film stars no less than three actors born in 1925 - Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, and Rock Hudson.

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Silent Tuesdays | A Touch of Lubitsch If stylistic grandeur and visual excess are the hallmarks of the historical spectacle, then Madame Dubarry is one of the genre's most rigorous and shining examples from the silent period. 

Hitchcock Through the Ages Initially created with 3-D in mind, but rarely exhibited that way, Dial M for Murder stars Ray Milland as a calculating husband plotting the demise of his unfaithful wife.

Make Mine Musicals When Fred Astaire is dumped by partner Ann Miller, he picks unsophisticated and uncoordinated Judy Garland out of a chorus as her replacement.

The Centennial Club "I'd hate to take  a bite out of you, Sidney, you're a cookie full of arsenic" is one of numerous memorable lines in a brilliant American cult picture that is, with Touch of Evil, the last of the great films noir, and among  the sharpest, most uncompromisingly dark Manhattan street movies—specifically of the old Times Square district—ever made.

Make Mine Musicals | Saturday Matinees! When Fred Astaire is dumped by partner Ann Miller, he picks unsophisticated and uncoordinated Judy Garland out of a chorus as her replacement.

Stanley Kubrick 27-year-old Kubrick joined the ranks of the world's greatest filmmakers with this milestone in film noir history.

Hitchcock Through the Ages Hitchcock goes for laughs with this dark comedy about a New England community dealing with a very inconvenient dead body.

The Centennial Club Professional daredevil and white-suited hero The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) convinces turn-of-the-century automakers that a race from New York to Paris — the long way around — will promote automobile sales.

A Lyttle Lynch Part twisted fairy tale, part Bonnie and Clyde, this Palme d’Or winner takes the American road movie to outlandish new heights.

Silent Tuesdays | A Touch of Lubitsch Director Ernst Lubitsch tackles another historical epic with this film that tells a tale of love and betrayal in ancient Egypt.

From Rochester, With Love This salute to Rochester-born bandleader Cab Calloway begins with seven short films — two animated shorts and five “soundies” — that demonstrates Calloway’s talent at his prime.

Silent Tuesdays | A Touch of Lubitsch Three men, three women, many combinations.

Hitchcock Through the Ages Part of an extraordinary string of thrillers in Hitchcock’s British period, Sabotage is primarily known now for a sequence including a bomb, a bus, a child, and an inexorable ratcheting of tension.